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Segmentation of biomedical images can assist radiologists to make a better diagnosis and take decisions faster by helping in the detection of abnormalities, such as tumors. Manual or semi-automated segmentation, however, can be a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Dhanunjaya Mitta , Soumick Chatterjee , Oliver Speck , Andreas Nürnberger

In this work, we report the set-up and results of the Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS), which was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2017 and the International Conferences on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Patrick Bilic , Patrick Christ , Hongwei Bran Li , Eugene Vorontsov , Avi Ben-Cohen , Georgios Kaissis , Adi Szeskin , Colin Jacobs , Gabriel Efrain Humpire Mamani , Gabriel Chartrand , Fabian Lohöfer , Julian Walter Holch , Wieland Sommer , Felix Hofmann , Alexandre Hostettler , Naama Lev-Cohain , Michal Drozdzal , Michal Marianne Amitai , Refael Vivantik , Jacob Sosna , Ivan Ezhov , Anjany Sekuboyina , Fernando Navarro , Florian Kofler , Johannes C. Paetzold , Suprosanna Shit , Xiaobin Hu , Jana Lipková , Markus Rempfler , Marie Piraud , Jan Kirschke , Benedikt Wiestler , Zhiheng Zhang , Christian Hülsemeyer , Marcel Beetz , Florian Ettlinger , Michela Antonelli , Woong Bae , Míriam Bellver , Lei Bi , Hao Chen , Grzegorz Chlebus , Erik B. Dam , Qi Dou , Chi-Wing Fu , Bogdan Georgescu , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto , Felix Gruen , Xu Han , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jürgen Hesser , Jan Hendrik Moltz , Christian Igel , Fabian Isensee , Paul Jäger , Fucang Jia , Krishna Chaitanya Kaluva , Mahendra Khened , Ildoo Kim , Jae-Hun Kim , Sungwoong Kim , Simon Kohl , Tomasz Konopczynski , Avinash Kori , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi , Fan Li , Hongchao Li , Junbo Li , Xiaomeng Li , John Lowengrub , Jun Ma , Klaus Maier-Hein , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Hans Meine , Dorit Merhof , Akshay Pai , Mathias Perslev , Jens Petersen , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Jin Qi , Xiaojuan Qi , Oliver Rippel , Karsten Roth , Ignacio Sarasua , Andrea Schenk , Zengming Shen , Jordi Torres , Christian Wachinger , Chunliang Wang , Leon Weninger , Jianrong Wu , Daguang Xu , Xiaoping Yang , Simon Chun-Ho Yu , Yading Yuan , Miao Yu , Liping Zhang , Jorge Cardoso , Spyridon Bakas , Rickmer Braren , Volker Heinemann , Christopher Pal , An Tang , Samuel Kadoury , Luc Soler , Bram van Ginneken , Hayit Greenspan , Leo Joskowicz , Bjoern Menze

Accurate three-dimensional delineation of liver tumors on contrast-enhanced CT is a prerequisite for treatment planning, navigation and response assessment, yet manual contouring is slow, observer-dependent and difficult to standardise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xuecheng Li , Weikuan Jia , Komildzhon Sharipov , Alimov Ruslan , Lutfuloev Mazbutdzhon , Ismoilov Shuhratjon , Yuanjie Zheng

Liver segmentation from abdominal CT images is an essential step for liver cancer computer-aided diagnosis and surgical planning. However, both the accuracy and robustness of existing liver segmentation methods cannot meet the requirements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Changfa Shi , Min Xian , Xiancheng Zhou , Haotian Wang , Heng-Da Cheng

Automatic segmentation of liver lesions is a fundamental requirement towards the creation of computer aided diagnosis (CAD) and decision support systems (CDS). Traditional segmentation approaches depend heavily upon hand-crafted features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng

Liver steatosis is known as the abnormal accumulation of lipids within cells. An accurate quantification of steatosis area within the liver histopathological microscopy images plays an important role in liver disease diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Xiaoyuan Guo , Fusheng Wang , George Teodorou , Alton B. Farris , Jun Kong

In this paper, we propose a bottleneck supervised (BS) U-Net model for liver and tumor segmentation. Our main contributions are: first, we propose a variation of the original U-Net that incorporates dense modules, inception modules and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Song Li , Geoffrey Kwok Fai Tso

Various approaches for liver segmentation in CT have been proposed: Besides statistical shape models, which played a major role in this research area, novel approaches on the basis of convolutional neural networks have been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Hans Meine , Grzegorz Chlebus , Mohsen Ghafoorian , Itaru Endo , Andrea Schenk

We propose a fully-automated method for accurate and robust detection and segmentation of potentially cancerous lesions found in the liver and in lymph nodes. The process is performed in three steps, including organ detection, lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Assaf Hoogi , John W. Lambert , Yefeng Zheng , Dorin Comaniciu , Daniel L. Rubin

Liver cancer has high morbidity and mortality rates in the world. Multi-phase CT is a main medical imaging modality for detecting/identifying and diagnosing liver tumors. Automatically detecting and classifying liver lesions in CT images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Fakai Wang , Chi-Tung Cheng , Chien-Wei Peng , Ke Yan , Min Wu , Le Lu , Chien-Hung Liao , Ling Zhang

We propose a novel method, the adaptive local window, for improving level set segmentation technique. The window is estimated separately for each contour point, over iterations of the segmentation process, and for each individual object.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Assaf Hoogi , Christopher F. Beaulieu , Guilherme M. Cunha , Elhamy Heba , Claude B. Sirlin , Sandy Napel , Daniel L. Rubin

Image segmentation is a critical step in computational biomedical image analysis, typically evaluated using metrics like the Dice coefficient during training and validation. However, in clinical settings without manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sikha O K , Meritxell Riera-Marín , Adrian Galdran , Javier García Lopez , Julia Rodríguez-Comas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

Integrating textual data with imaging in liver tumor segmentation is essential for enhancing diagnostic accuracy. However, current multi-modal medical datasets offer only general text annotations, lacking lesion-specific details critical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Xiaoyan Jiang , Zhi Zhou , Hailing Wang , Guozhong Wang , Zhijun Fang

Automatic segmentation of liver tumors in medical images is crucial for the computer-aided diagnosis and therapy. It is a challenging task, since the tumors are notoriously small against the background voxels. This paper proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Huiyu Li , Xiabi Liu , Said Boumaraf , Weihua Liu , Xiaopeng Gong , Xiaohong Ma

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases in the world. Segmentation and labeling of liver tumors and blood vessels in CT images can provide convenience for doctors in liver tumor diagnosis and surgical intervention. In the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Xiangyu Meng , Xudong Zhang , Gan Wang , Ying Zhang , Xin Shi , Huanhuan Dai , Zixuan Wang , Xun Wang

Liver vessel segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging data is important for the computational analysis of vascular remodelling, associated with a wide spectrum of diffuse liver diseases. Existing approaches rely on contrast enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Daniel Sobotka , Alexander Herold , Matthias Perkonigg , Lucian Beer , Nina Bastati , Alina Sablatnig , Ahmed Ba-Ssalamah , Georg Langs

Segmentation of medical images is a challenging task owing to their complexity. A standard segmentation problem within Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the task of labeling voxels according to their tissue type. Image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-02 G. Geethu Lakshmi

Liver tumor segmentation in CT images is a critical step in the diagnosis, surgical planning and postoperative evaluation of liver disease. An automatic liver and tumor segmentation method can greatly relieve physicians of the heavy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Jiahao Cui , Ruoxin Xiao , Shiyuan Fang , Minnan Pei , Yixuan Yu

Accurate segmentation for medical images is important for clinical diagnosis. Existing automatic segmentation methods are mainly based on fully supervised learning and have an extremely high demand for precise annotations, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yuanpeng Liu , Qinglei Hui , Zhiyi Peng , Shaolin Gong , Dexing Kong

Accurate segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an essential step for radiomic analysis as well as developing advanced surgical planning techniques. In clinical analysis, the segmentation is currently performed by clinicians from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Wenshuai Zhao , Dihong Jiang , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund